Dutch is spoken by more than 20,000,000 people: 13,400,000 in Netherlands, 5,640,000 in Belgium, 413,000 in USA, 159,000 in Canada, 65,000 in Aruba, more than 388,048 elsewhere.
Reading the Scriptures
in Dutch
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1477.
The Old Testament was first published in 1480.
The complete Bible was first published in 1522.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Today's Dutch Version, first published in 1983 by Netherlands Bible Society, Amsterdam. This page is taken from a Bible published in 1998 by Netherlands Bible Society, Haarlem.
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1477.
The Old Testament was first published in 1480.
The complete Bible was first published in 1522.